WASHINGTON (CNN)- The U.S. House on Tuesday night passed the «cut, cap and balance»
deficit reduction plan backed by tea party conservatives but dismissed by President Barack Obama, who offered strong praise for another proposal put together by a bipartisan group of senators.
Not exact matches
George Osborne found himself increasingly isolated today as a small army of economists demanded he
back down over his
deficit reduction plan.
But as Britain slips
back into recession, and as voters in Europe tire of austerity, Labour is uniting around a message that the coalition's
deficit reduction plan is fast becoming a liability.
Though voters in the constituency are on balance pessimistic about prospects for the economy over the next few years, they
back the coalition's «
Plan A» for
deficit reduction by a wide margin.
On Dec. 1, 2010, the bipartisan
deficit -
reduction commission, appointed by President Obama, released its final
plan for cutting the U.S.
deficit — which included suggestions to pare
back the mortgage interest deduction.